One of the most misunderstood sections of Campbell’s analysis is “Woman as Temptress”, this is due mostly to its title, but it is...

“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you...

The stage that Campbell called the Road of Trials is where we get into the meat of the story, as it is here that the hero is truly...

The Belly of the Whale starts the moment the hero realizes that he’s “not in Kansas anymore”, and begins to examine the Special World for...

The First Threshold is the boundary between the hero’s ordinary world, and the special world. It is a point of no return; once crossed,...

While it’s true that the hero can, and often does, receive aid at various points throughout their journey, in most cases, they cannot...